Debates and dilemmas in promoting health : a reader

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Debates and dilemmas in promoting health : a reader

edited by Moyra Sidell ... [et al.]

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

2nd ed

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Selection editorial matter and commissioned chapters - Open University

Previous ed., 1997

Includes index

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This accessible and engaging book addresses the fundamental debates surrounding health promotion as well as exploring new horizons and raising controversial issues. Containing analysis from practitioners, policy-makers and academics, it teases out the exciting and sometimes difficult dilemmas facing those promoting health. Thoroughly revised and updated to reflect changes in health promotion practice, policy and research, this book is the reader will be of continued interest to all those committed to promoting health, especially those working in the health and social care fields.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction.- SECTION 1: KEY ISSUES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH PROMOTION Introduction.- The Cycle of Conflict: The History of the Public Health and Health Promotion Movements
  • C.Webster and J.French.- The Challenge of Health Inequalities
  • H.Graham.- Older People's Health: Applying Antonovsky's Salutogenic Paradigm
  • M.Sidell.- Social Capital and Health Promotion: A Review
  • P.Hawe and A.Shiell.- The Importance of Social Theory for Health Promotion: From Description to Reflexivity
  • R.Caplan.- Models of Health:Pervasive, Persuasive, and Politically Charged
  • T.Collins.- Planning and Delivering Health Promotion: Intergration Challenges
  • A.Tannerhill.- The Limits of Lifestyle: Re-assessing 'Fatalism' in the Popular Culture of Illness Prevention
  • C.Davison, S.Frankel and G.Davey-Smith.- An Empowerment Model of Health Promotion
  • K.Tones and S.Tilford.- Counselling People Living with HIV/AIDS
  • P.Connor.- More than Words: Dialogue across Difference
  • Y.Gunaratnum.- The Social Marketing Imbroglio in Health Promotion
  • R.Craig Lefebvre.- SECTION 2 : QUESTIONING THE EVIDENCE BASE OF HEALTH PROMOTION Introduction.- Epidemiology: To be Taken with Care
  • J.H.Abramson.- Explaining the French Paradox
  • M.L.Burr.- Job-loss and Family Morbidity: A study of a Factory Closure
  • N.Beale and S.Nethercott.- What Counts as Evidence: Issues and Debates
  • D.V.McQueen and L.M.Anderson.- Is Prevention Better than Cure?
  • C.Godfrey.- The Efficacy of Health Promotion, Health Economics and Late Modernism
  • R.Burrows, R.Bunton, S.Muncer and K.Gillen.- Towards a Critical Approach to Evaluation
  • A.Everitt and P.Hardiker.- A Case Study of Ethical Issues in Health Promotion Mammography Screening: The Nurse's Position
  • A.Dines.- SECTION 3:PROMOTING HEALTH IN A WIDER CONTEXT Introduction.- The Changing Global Context of Public Health.- Pedagogy of the Oppressed: An Extract
  • P.Freire.- Addressing the Contradictions: Health Promotion and Community Health Action in the United Kingdom
  • W.Farrant.- Dialogical Evaluation and Health Projects: A Discourse of Change
  • A.Beattie.- User Movements, Community Development and Health Promotion
  • M.Barnes.- Promoting Health with Black and Minority Ethnic Communities
  • Developing Strategies which Address Social Inequalities and Social Exclusion
  • J.Douglas.- Econology: Integrating Health and Sustainable Development. Guiding Principles for Decision-Making
  • R.Labonte.- Using Sponsorship to Create Health Environments for Sport and Racing Arts Venues in Western Australia
  • B.Corti, C.D'Arcy J.Holman, R.J.Donovan, S.K.Frizzell and A.MCarroll.- Can the Health Sector Influence Transport Planning for Better Health?
  • A.Davis.- Crime is a Public Health Problem
  • J.Middleton.- SECTION 4:LOOKING FORWARD: DILEMMAS IN HEALTH PROMOTION Introduction.- Lifestyle, Public Health and Paternalism
  • D.Beauchamp.- Surveillance, Health Promotion and the Formation of a Risk Identity
  • S.Nettleton.- Consumer Health Information Seeking on the Internet: The State of the Art
  • R J.W.Cline and K.M.Haynes.- Gendering Health: Men, Women and Wellbeing
  • L.Doyal.- The Future of the Health Promoting School
  • S.Denman, A.Moon, C.Parsons and D.Stears.- Think Globally, Act Locally
  • P.Townsend.- From Healthy Cities to Locality-based Initiatives: Margin to Mainstream
  • M.P.Kelly and A.Killoran.- Health Promotion as an Investment Strategy: A Perspective for the 21st Century
  • L.S.Levin & E.Ziglio.

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